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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

North, September 2025

A planning area page. 25 of the 3,920 flights in Philadelphia Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2025.

25

drone flights crossed North.

25

of them in September 2025.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed North 25 times between 19 September 2025 and 28 September 2025, by Philadelphia Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 September 2025.

25 of the 25 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 2025. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
NorthOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

6 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.

0% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (EDT).

1 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 25 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Events32%
  2. Call for service28%
  3. Other24%
  4. Patrol support16%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2025

DateTakeoff (EDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 19 Sep 20251:35 pmOther16 min6bd3b963
Fri 19 Sep 20251:53 pmOther20 min593fcfa1
Fri 19 Sep 20252:08 pmOther20 min7b76f9a8
Wed 24 Sep 20254:50 pmPatrol support11 min106892cf
Wed 24 Sep 20255:04 pmPatrol support14 min1d7f1f45
Fri 26 Sep 20252:16 pmCall for service17 mine52a0d49
Fri 26 Sep 20253:01 pmCall for service13 minf1eb0ea0
Sat 27 Sep 202511:58 amCall for service13 min1b741438
Sat 27 Sep 202512:43 pmCall for service17 mind92b02de
Sat 27 Sep 20251:06 pmOther13 min9444132c
Sat 27 Sep 20251:24 pmPatrol support8 min3786ea7e
Sat 27 Sep 20251:39 pmOther8 mina27a10c2
Sat 27 Sep 20251:51 pmOther20 min090f596a
Sat 27 Sep 20252:44 pmCall for service16 mind3522703
Sat 27 Sep 20253:40 pmCall for service8 min94805c00
Sat 27 Sep 20254:35 pmPatrol support16 min20f2e965
Sat 27 Sep 20254:43 pmCall for service17 minc1c277bc
Sun 28 Sep 20251:48 pmEvents14 minb272fc0a
Sun 28 Sep 20252:58 pmEvents19 min8b99c168
Sun 28 Sep 20253:19 pmEvents20 minf1e7d7e0
Sun 28 Sep 20253:55 pmEvents19 min28ab5191
Sun 28 Sep 20254:17 pmEvents2 minf3093f89
Sun 28 Sep 20256:12 pmEvents21 minbc3b6cf5
Sun 28 Sep 20258:05 pmEvents18 min04e5bb09
Sun 28 Sep 20258:23 pmEvents17 mine87239d0

All 25 flights in September 2025. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. A flight whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter is listed like any other but drawn as a generalised area, not a path.
  • Operators are the agency's own accounts in the record, numbered within the agency in order of first flight; no name or address is read into a page.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
  • Boundary. "North" is a planning area polygon from City of Philadelphia (Planning Districts), licence "City of Philadelphia GIS disclaimer (provided as is; no license stated)". Boundary licence unconfirmed: the boundary is shown for orientation only.
  • A flight counts for this area when its path crosses the boundary; only the part inside is drawn.

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